Samuel Hopkins

Samuel Hopkins (9 April 1753-16 September 1819) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-KY 5) from 1813 to 1815, succeeding Henry Clay and preceding Alney McLean.

Biography
Samuel Hopkins was born in Albemarle County, Virginia in 1753, and he served on George Washington's staff and as a Continental Army lieutenant-colonel during the American Revolutionary War. In 1796, he moved to Kentucky and settled on the Ohio River, and he became a lawyer in Henderson and served in the State House from 1800 to 1801 and from 1803 to 1806, in the State Senate from 1809 to 1813, as a Major-General and commander-in-chief in Illinois and Indiana during the Peoria War, and in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1815. He died in 1819.